United States goes to poll today to elect its President

With just hours to go before America goes to the polls today to elect its 45th President, the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remains as close as well. Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held a four percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the Washington Post poll released yesterday.

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a survey of 1,763 likely US voters, 47 per cent said they backed Clinton and 43 per cent said they supported Trump. According to the Washington Post, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. A separate Bloomberg Politics-Selzer & Co poll released earlier showed Clinton with a 3 point lead.